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Why is the Atlantic Ocean getting larger than the Pacific Ocean?
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∙ 12y ago
The Atlantic Ocean is growing bigger because of two divergent plate boundaries, the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. Each year, these two plates move farther and farther apart from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). As these plates separate, oceanic lithosphere forms, resulting in the growth of the Atlantic Ocean.
Florine Wiza
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∙ 10y agoThe Atlantic Ocean is growing bigger because of two divergent plate boundaries, the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. Each year, these two plates move farther and farther apart from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). As these plates separate, oceanic lithosphere forms, resulting in the growth of the Atlantic Ocean.
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∙ 12y agoBecause North America and south America are moving westward.
Because north America and south America are moving westward.
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∙ 11y agoAtlantic is getting bigger with time beacause its getting longer, we know this beacause of the platic tectonics and the continental drif provide the theory
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∙ 13y agobecause of Continental drift
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Which ocean is larger Pacific Ocean or Atlantic Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean
Which is larger Atlantic or Pacific Ocean?
Pacific Ocean
Which is larger the Atlantic Ocean or pacific ocean?
The Pacific Ocean
Is the Atlantic ocean or the pacific ocean larger?
The Pacific Ocean is the largest.
Which is larger the Indian of Atlantic ocean?
the Atlantic ocean is larger, the Pacific ocean is the largest, then the Atlantic , the Indian ocean is 3rd.
What is larger the Atlantic or Pacific?
The Pacific Ocean is bigger it is the largest ocean in the world.
Which is smaller Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean?
The Pacific is by far the larger.
What ocean is larger than the Atlantic Ocean?
Pacific ocean
Is the pacific ocean same size as the Atlantic ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, in area. It is much larger than the Atlantic Ocean.
Is the Pacific Ocean 10 times the size as the Atlantic Ocean?
No. The Pacific Ocean is 165,200,000 km² whereas the Atlantic Ocean is 106,400,000 km². This makes the Pacific Ocean 1.5 times larger than the Atlantic Ocean.
What is larger the Atlantic or the pacific ocean by how much?
Atlantic Ocean :106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), Pacific Ocean: 169.2 million square kilometres (64.1 million square miles) tha pacific ocean is larger.
What is the worlds 2 largest ocean?
There is the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
